Apple, Hate and Refreshments That Don't Come in a Cup

Carl Icahn's Tweet might have moved Apple stock, but it didn't change the overarching narrative.

NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Check out these Tweets from some guy who blogs for a publication called Computerworld regarding my Apple ( AAPL) coverage:

@jgpmolloy is it? I'm not overly familiar with him, but I feel that he's being mean and rude and obsessive.— jonny evans (@jonnyevans_cw) August 12, 2013

And ...

@jgpmolloy yeah, it's the malicious tendency to it all upsets me...people just don't seem to simply think their own thoughts. Groupthink.— jonny evans (@jonnyevans_cw) August 12, 2013

As the late, great and horribly underrated Elliott Smith said:

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

This is why Bob Evans "blogs" for a publication nobody reads.

He claims to be "not overly familiar with" me, yet can go on to disparage me as not only "mean and rude and obsessive," but my tendencies as "malicious." He and his Twitter follower accuse -- I guess me and TheStreet -- of "Groupthink" on the basis of Jim Cramer's position in AAPL. Apparently, we don't think for ourselves; we correlate editorial opinion with Cramer's portfolio.

That's strange, considering we probably had the most extensive, well-rounded and diverse coverage of the Apple/Carl Icahn thing in all of the media, financial or otherwise. Here is a close-to-complete list of the stories TheStreet published on Apple/Icahn over the last 36 hours or so:

If you do a quick skim through those 11 articles -- listed in chronological order starting with the most recent, as of Wednesday evening at 8:00 pm Eastern -- you will find a solid mix of news and information alongside diverse, strong and often provocative opinions. I would put that portfolio of stories up against the work of any other organization who dealt with the matter.

And, if you didn't already know it, through reading those articles you never would have guessed that Cramer works for and founded TheStreet. It appears as if there's absolutely no consideration whatsoever of what Jim Cramer thinks about Apple or what position he holds in the stock. And that's because there isn't.